Bulbophyllum rufilabrum

[Dirtmonkey]

A fun little plant, and a tough survivor. This is another one that survived months of neglect in a dark dry apartment while I thought it was being cared for. I lost at least 80% of my plants to that, but this one looked like I never left, after one good soaking.

This picture is last year. The blooming leaf and pseudobulb grew entirely after moving the plant to growing under fluorescent lights. The plant was even partly shaded from the lights under some Tillandsia and random things growing around it. I wouldn't have noticed the flower at all, if I hadn't been so clumsy that I had to clean up a knocked over pot in there.

I didn't notice any fragrance, but didn't try very hard. Flowers this color too often smell like something very unpleasant!

I just recovered these plants a few days ago. I should make a list of the suvivors and what they went through. Shouldn't take long, it was so harsh that every last Tillandsia and most other plants with them are utterly dead, dead, dead.

Vincent